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[Rod]

Hey webmaster -- enable HTML!

[PhilD]

No. BBCode is on though, so you can do most of what you can do with HTML

http://www.hummerxclub.com/forum/faq.php?mode=bbcode

[Rod]

[quote=\"PhilD\"]No.[/quote]

I moderate a phpBB board for my company and that's the exact same answer I gave when asked the question.

Thanks for the lead to BBCode. I'd forgotten about that.

[PhilD]

You didn't need to ask then

As you know, the problem with allowing HTML is it is so easy for people to add malicious code to redirect threads and all sorts of other stuff. It is just so much easier to not allow it at all, than to spend all day long moderate other peoples junk.

[Rod]

[quote=\"PhilD\"]You didn't need to ask then

As you know, the problem with allowing HTML is it is so easy for people to add malicious code to redirect threads and all sorts of other stuff. It is just so much easier to not allow it at all, than to spend all day long moderate other peoples junk.[/quote]

Yup, malicious code is a potential problem.

I was trying to figure out a way to add a br tag in my signature to drop the first line a bit below the auto-inserted horizontal line. Looks like I can't do that with code but imagine I can insert a small, blank .gif.

[Rod]

Strange mojo -- you add the img tag to my sig? It's broken.

[PhilD]

More ways than one to skin a cat, I found that using

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on a line above the sig works.

[Rod]

[quote=\"PhilD\"]More ways than one to skin a cat, I found that using

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on line works.[/quote]

Nice hack. Thanks. (Psst. That's an HTML character string. )

[PhilD]

[quote=\"Rod\"]Strange mojo -- you add the img tag to my sig? It's broken.[/quote]Just figuring out what will givge you a space, should be sorted now.

[PhilD]

It's actually an extended character, but gets the same result. Just don't tell anyone

[Rod]

[PhilD]

Pretty

[Rod]

Chances are you already either have a USB \"thumb\" drive, or you will have one in the near future--these little solid-state flash memory devices are inexpensive, nearly ubiquitous, and very, very handy. Not only can they replace floppy drives for casual file transfers, but the larger capacity thumb drives also can serve as the basis for an excellent, fit-in-your-pocket software repair kit, letting you diagnose and repair PCs, including those that might otherwise be unbootable or that are locked by password or other problems.
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We've discussed USB drives before in \"What's Behind The USB Drive Revolution\". We also looked at ways to make a USB drive bootable from DOS in \"Solving USB Boot Problems\". We've also mentioned ways to boot from Linux (such as is discussed in this HowTo or in this Google search.) If you missed either of those earlier articles and references, this would be a good time to click back and catch up so we'll all be starting on the same page.

But when we left off our discussion of USB drives, there was no good way to boot XP from a thumb drive because of the way that XP takes over USB control as the operating system starts -- in effect, XP tries to take over the USB system it's already using to boot from, with unpredictable results.